We already have our hands on a production unit and our full camera review will be available in the near future. To shorten the wait until then we have posted a selection of sample images that were taken with both wide angle and tele lens in a variety of lighting situations in the gallery below.

Sample Gallery

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Unless otherwise noted images taken with no particular settings at full resolution.

Well after owning the OP5 for a few days I decided to RMA and return it. Comparing it to the OP3 pictures revealed very little difference. The 8 gig of ram was nice in theory but not a difference in everyday usage. I'm going to put my money in a new lens :)

According to some users, the Oneplus 5 does not provide raw files for the second camera. Only for the main camera although Oneplus does not mention this restriction on their website... But Oneplus also did not mention that their 2x lossless zoom is actually 1.33x (or 1.5x with the 16 megapixel crop) zoom + algorithms.

worthless. < Grade F. 20 MP and 16 MP, both have way too much MP over the top, on such a small sensor. Have fun with aquarell-like paintings, when zooming to 100%, and no bright light. i am sure, the image processing algorithms can rescue something, but also only cooking with water. means: IQ is worse compared to old, good 1/7" sensors with 10 MP...about 5+ years ago.

Who wants this kind of "photos"?! When do companies like OnePlus learn, Megapixels aren't everything? They must still think, buyers aren't smart, dumb, and only looking about the MP count....

I also notice this aquarell effect even compared to cheaper devices. Is there something the user can do to mitigate it? The camera is meh (which is annoying) but the rest of the phone is awesome for the price.

Meh. The usual camera phone pics. However, I was surprised by one comparison I saw online which showed that on this one small dimension the OP5 does better than the S8. The S8 tends to brighten images too much to make them look "good." In contrast the OP5 seems to prefer more subdued pics that preserve DR and that can be easily processed for more punch later. This makes some pics seem flatter than S8 but in my view are really better for photogs. Other than that, it's adequate. There are no great phone cams. So adequate is ok.

We can't beat the laws of optics... Phones like Pixel, or Xiaomi Mi 5 employ software tricks such as stacking, or context-dependent processing in order to achieve pleasant JPG output. It is the practicality of smartphones that killed P&S market, not the image quality. I am not a fan of smartphones so I stick to my Canon SD4000 w/CHDK, beats any smartphone and will remain to do so. The balance of lens resolution, sensor resolution and device size is almost perfect, plus, unlike new phone models, it's truly pocketable.It is unreasonable to use more than 10-12MP on such small sensors if you can't pair them with adequate optics. Olympus TG-5 realized this. Take a look at the latest IXUS 20MP cameras - zooming in to 100% reveals less than 3MP of detail, basically JPEGs fill your memory card with lots of GBs of SMUDGE. Not good!For portable cameras, P&S models from 6-7 years ago are best buy, if you manage to find like-new. They're cheap, pocketable, and IQ is very good.

I really like DNG output on my SD4000 - there's no much detail, but the detail recorded looks good, sort of "rounded" and aesthetically pleasing. Phone cameras usually give "jerky", nervous-looking detail, even in DNG, or water-colour in JPG, so you can't enlarge much... These images are meant to be looked at on your phone.It is a bit ironic that sensor resolutions increase, but screen sizes at which people usually look photos actually DECREASE on average. Phones and tablets dominate the market in greater and greater extent. By the time you get to your desktop, you've already browsed through the images on Facebook, Instagram, etc. on your smartphone.However, I hope dedicated pocket cameras will continue to be made. Just imagine that 2010 10MP BSI CMOS in SD4000 revamped in 2020. If still at 10MP, it would yield much much better ISO performance.

Lars, in Spanish, we say “buscando la mosca en la sopa” meaning “looking for the fly in the soup.” What a bunch of inquisitive comments, obviously by 100% detail peepers, who almost always overlook the soup’s presentation and taste. Thank you the shots; your photographs are beautiful.

The dynamic range, colors, contrast is amazing, but there are some really weird artifacts, especially on the wide angle, around the trees in the far, or around edges.And too strong noise smudging. BUT these are all software things. They can be fixed with updates.However, I'd be more interested in RAW images, when comparing phone to phone, and also, how fast is the "Fast AF" focus really.

Seems like even the One Plus 3T had superior image quality. The quality from OP5 is abysmal to say the least. They hyped up the camera prowess to such an extent that nothing short of borderline perfection would do. The sky is laced with the after effects of oversharpening... I could have painted the foliage better given a chance... :) the lens doesn't seem to be consistantly sharp throughout the frame... And low light.. well its okay... nothing to write home about... Damn sure cannot compete with S8 / U11 or even good old Moto Z2 Play ...

Actually, samples are very good, especially at ISO 125. Watercolour processing in smartphones is our future and we must actept it. I personally shelved Nokia Lumia 925 and prefer using Nokia 808 as a simple phone with outstanding camera. But I know, it is a dead end.

Wait for the Nokia N9 ... its supposed to come packed with a 24 MP half inch sensor coupled with Zeiss optics... if the rumours are to be believed... Unless they go the dual camera way... which is again rumoured to have two 13 MP sensors...

well, I agree that most of the images do look nice at smaller image sizes, let's say typical facebook size but at a pixel level they cannot compare at all with the Google Pixel, whatever way you look at it.

"but at a pixel level they cannot compare at all with the Google Pixel"

Normalised they do compare well; that was my point. Of course they don't compare on a pixel level, that was what I was arguing was the mistake in previous comments.

As it happens most of the Pixel images in the galleries are at ISO50 so impossible to compare, whereas this camera is often at ISO200, where the iphone is already a disaster. Having now normalised some pixel images at high ISO and compared, I would agree the Pixel does beat it but not by so much.

Having said all that, I'm only comparing resolution. But even so, this camera does look like it's got reasonable DR, for instance.

But for sure, the image quality is not a catastrophe as comments seem to suggest. The low ISO shots, normalised to 4k which is my threshold for large sensor acceptability (at ISO800), are good even to the borders.

problem is that the Pixel uses ISO 50 in bright light, the OnePLus often goes much higher...you should not compare at same ISO level but at same light level...it's the result that counts, it doesn't matter what ISO the camera uses for that.

Unintelligent pixel peeping? None of us want a camera that clicks pictures that look superficially good. It especially becomes pointless when you want some detail out of a distant object. Also the noise levels are ridiculously high.Please don't make comments like these, review sites tend to go easier on inexpensive phones so that people such as yourself do not go hating on the site. And this in turn hurts those manufacturers that are pricing the phones higher with good reason, such as HTC.

I agree with you but the problem is you cant sell images on stock websites with this quality. I have sold at least 2 images taken with iphone 6. After all we need some editing too which further degrades the image quality .

"Please don't make comments like these....so that people such as yourself do not go hating on the site."

Feeling the pinch of The Truth, are we. :) Normalised, you're wrong about the noise, it's pretty good. You're repeating the mistake I am criticising, which is to be pixel peeping and then making a direct comparison. Where is that intelligent?

And seriously, calling a strong but fair criticism of the criticism is not 'hating'. That's a very strong word, there. The unfair criticism could equally be called 'hate'.

" It especially becomes pointless when you want some detail out of a distant object."

hmmm, arguably this is the wrong-tool-for-the job factor. Ever considered a Fujifilm X100F? Small and it's not geared to phone and social media jobs but rather photography.

What we should be looking at here is can the camera do decent low-light social pics for facebook, and decent daylight pics for facebook? Yes, and yes, and much better than an iphone.

Doesn't the exact ISO become kind of irrelevant for the Pixel if you use the camera in its default HDR+ mode anyway? (which many seem to favor) It's stacking and averaging multiple frames by default...

What about using it with HDR auto or on or using manual mode or using a different camera app or waiting for updates . l think one of these ways must make it better espicially that OP company focuses on camera and photography this year . If we use a lower reolution (12mp or less) can this make photos even a bit better ?

By the way it's not good that dpreview accepted to obtain the Oneplus 5 before the announcement. This increases the risk that one gets biased (subconscious). It's very disappointing that so many reviewers accepted this. Reminds me of amazon reviews where often reviewers got a free product in order to review it...

Again with the conspiracy theories? This is a pretty standard practice, how does accepting it earlier or later bias them? All an NDA does is prevent all those with early samples from talking about it until X date, it actually levels the playing field... If they pass on it until it's out or whatever and only publish a review until 3 months after everyone else then the content is highly irrelevant and you'll see commenters complaining about that instead. They do this for cameras of all brands too FYI.

Did you actually read my post? The problem is that you can get biased subconsciously because you got the product for free. Visit Amazon. Sometimes the amazon reviews have the note that the reviewer got the product for free because that's important to know. That's no conspiracy theory, when you publish a scientific paper then you must state your conflict of interest (conflict of interest means for instance that you have to state whether you got money or whether someone else paid something for you, no matter whether you think that it does not influence you).

I read your post, you made absolutely no mention of free gear in it, getting it early absolutely DOESN'T mean getting it for free... This is pretty common knowledge, most review gear of this kind (not exactly cheap and going to established outlets) usually has to go back by a certain date. Most large review sites of any kind of gear tend to work with loaners, be it directly from the manufacturer or from stores.

I just looked at the exif data and although the exif data state 4.1mm for both cameras (which must be wrong), the exif data states that the equivalent focal lengths are 24 and 32mm... So just a 1.33x zoom + digital zoom..I would say that selling a 32mm camera as a tele camera is nearly a crime. ;)

in what exif reader is it saying that? Mine does not show any equivalent focal length....in any case I am not sure I would trust the Exif at this point, there is quite a bit of suspicious data in there.

Even if it was a hybrid(digital+optical) 2x zoom that is as good as an optical zoom, Oneplus should have told us. But by showing a 2x button in the camera app, they want people to believe something different if the tele camera really doesn't have the twofold equivalent focal length.

Maybe the 1.6x is related to a 16 megapixel crop? Tweakers.net writes in the mentioned article (google translation): "The effect is that those who press the zoom button in the camera app, do not get the whole picture of the secondary sensor, but a crop of it. The camera software changes from sensor at a zoom ratio of around 1.6."

So I would assume that when you consider the second camera as a camera with a 20 megapixel 1/2.8" sensor, then it's just 1.33x because cropping the sensor is not optical zoom. But when we consider the second camera as a 16(!) megapixel 1/3.2" sensor camera(the cropped area is similar to the area of a 1/3.2" sensor if it's a 1/2.8" sensor), then it would be 1.33xsqrt(20/16)≈ 1.5x (actually not lossless due to the smaller sensor area, but that's the same case with the iPhone 7 Plus)

Image processing looks horrendous. Hopefully they improve it because I just bought it and I don't want to have to shoot in RAW on a phone... The 3T's processing was very "hands off" in my opinion. It was much noisier, but also had much more detail and looked natural--closer to the output you'd see from a dedicated camera.

Good thing most of the photos I take with my phone are only uploaded at whatever small size the Facebook app allows. But still, this is really disappointing. It seems like the reviews for the phone are glowing except when it comes to the camera.

I have the OnePlus 3 (same camera as 3T) and the watercolor foilage is very present in the images on that phone, too. It's done to increase apparent detail at normal viewing scale, at the expense of ugly pixel peeping. If you are happy with the 3T, then don't pixel peep and you'll probably like the 5, too.

I never zoomed in any of the images before until I saw one comment, and after zooming in on one image (that lady's face) I think I am really scared. No not because I will order the phone or anything of sort (that's hilarious!) but how pathetic image processing could be! Jeez! I am not sure whether this is because of demo unit or not, but the output is beyond awful for any unit anyway.

These probably look ok viewed on mobile, but on my computer the noise reduction looks completely out of control. A shame that the image details seem much more constrained by whatever the processor is doing than the lens.

I mean, image 11 at only 160 ISO looks like a watercolor.

I would much prefer to see some more noise and get back realistic detail than whatever OPO settled on here.

is there any phone/app around that lets me manually adjust noise reduction and sharpening in jpeg mode? i dont want to shoot raw and post process my phone camera. just sharpening and noise sliders all the way to the left...

well, noise reduction and sharpening are applied after the raw data has been captured by the sensor and is being converted into a JPG file. Once the JPG is "finished" you can't adjust those parameters anymore without deteriorating the IQ. So shooting Raw is your only option if you want control over NR and sharpening.

i see. but where does the conversion happen, in the camera app or before? if it´s possible to store a raw file, why can´t i adjust the parameters for the jpeg conversion. i dont think that the conversion happens on the chip since some manufacturers use the same imaging sensors with very different results. so for the phone manufacturers there is a way to set the parameters of conversion.but i guess only a few users would like to change these settings and so nobody takes the time to implement this.

You can use app as photoshop express ! it adjust exposure , contrast , saturayion , and more .... it removes luminance noise , color noise it can control sharpness , clarity it has many effectsYou can find it on google play store .

Moreover the "tele" camera does not show much more detail than the main camera. Looks rather like a slightly improved digital zoom. I assume the "tele" camera's equivalent focal length might be only ≈1.3x higher and the rest is digital zoom.

Looking at the sample photos, they're quite better than expected and then after a few moments I realized it is too good for a 1/2.8" sensor. I decided to pixel peep in the low ISO photos, it blew up to my face the massive software magic done to these photos. It still doesn't have storage expansion with a launch price higher than ever before. Most disappointing OnePlus

It appears that these cameras are sampling multiple frames to achieve better image quality, similar to the Pixel, S8, U11 and the iPhone 7 IIRC. But based on these samples it also does a worse job at avoiding ghosts that are a result of the aforementioned image stacking, see for example the 4th image, the guy in the striped shirt and tan shorts on the left (hardly a fast moving subject). And although the stacking also helps the other 4 phones mentioned to improve their ability to capture (and compress) a large dynamic range from the scene into a single image, the Oneplus is struggling here too, judging by the same 4th image and 5th image (tele module), where highlights are clipped quite severely.

So much was said abot clearer photos and cooperation with DXO. I was betting on a good camera, but sadly I was disappointed. Gimmicky bookeh is something I don't care about. Well then it's a LG G6. Ultra wide angle is cooler than zoom anyway.

The portrait mode photo looks as it has been poorly masked on Photoshop and then just dropped some random blur on the background layer thereby eliminating all sense of depth that existed in the first place, in exchange for the fakest bokeh I ever seen in my life.

Certainly looks a little better than the iPhone, though I'd like to see samples of someone who is wearing glasses. I think so far the best I have seen is from the Huawei P10(more the larger model with the f1.7 lens).

I would like to stay positive, but if this the final output of this camera, well then the previous model had a much better IQ and this is miles away from the latest from Samsung, LG or Apple.

Probably, you got a bad sample. I learnt the other day they put almost all the available R&D budget on the new camera module this year, because that was their primary goal- to come up with something competitive IQ wise.

Irfanview reports both modules to have a real focal length of 4.1mm but with different crop factors resulting in 24mm equivalent and 32mm equivalent respectively. If that is correct (a big "if" ), Oneplus may be using digital zoom by default in addition to give a greater sense of magnification for the tele module. Which would also explain the additional artifacts (on top of the expected extra noise and/or noise reduction because of the smaller module and slower lens) that look like the result of upsampling.

Yes, the samples look really terrible at 100%. As the dual camera seems to be nearly exactly the same as the Oppo R11's dual camera, it might have similar equivalent focal lengths. According to the exif data of the Oppo R11, the second camera has an equivalent focal length of 37mm and the main camera ≈ 28.5mm if both sensors are 1/2.8" sensors. The Oneplus likely uses digital zoom and other algorithms in order to reach 2x

You're right TrojMacReady, the exif data (look at 35mm focal length, not focal length) of the Oneplus 5 samples state 24mm and 32mm. So you only get 1.33 "optical zoom". The rest might be digital or other algorithms in order to achieve 2x zoom.

But the 4.1mm focal length from the exif data is weird (because 4.1x6.7 ≠ 24 and 4.1x6.7≠ 32 ; 1/2.8" sensor has crop factor of about 6.7). Though the 4.1mm could be the focal length of the tele camera: If Oneplus crops 16megapixels from the 20megapixels sensor, then the crop factor changes to 7.5. 7.5x4.1≈31

I'll agree that it's at this point not overwhelming IQ. In theory this was taken with a production model but I'd assume there is a chance OnePlus will make some changes to the camera software before the retail units go out...

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